Columns & Blogs

"The republic only exists in the cities, at most in big towns and there it's stuck. Further down, not even the smell."

There are so many corruption scandals in Colombia, one no longer feels tranquility when misdeeds are discovered but rather feels concern.

A religion may lose its monopoly on moral principles but can not lose its dogmas.

When I hear Senator Carlos Martinez say he is being chased for being black, I think about the complexities racism has in Colombia.

Everyone wants to be happy, who doesn't? However as we have no precise recipe to achieve this, we dedicate ourselves to pursue what seems like the image we have of happiness: money, love, power, recreation, etc.

The decision of President Santos not to support the entry of Palestine, as a statehood, to the United Nations, not only seems contrary to justice and international law, but also politically misguided.

Perhaps the greatest merit judges have in Colombia is their independence from political power

A few months ago I wrote a column proposing that an investigation on the writ for legal protection of fundamental rights be made. This in order to be certain about its problems and, in particular, to know about the true extent of erratic judgments and on the involvement of lawyers and judicial corruption.

To begin to address the problems of a country it is necessary to answer the following question: what motivates the behavior of humans? There are two possible answers.

On the occasion of the slaughter that occurred last week at a casino in the city of Monterrey (52 people died), the media and public opinion have referred again to the "Colombianization of Mexico."

This seemed to be a good week for public university. After the return of President Santos from Chile (where students have been protesting for six months), the government announced it was withdrawing the proposal to establish colleges for profit (just under the bill to reform higher education) and earmark additional resources of 1.5 billion pesos to finance the public university. This is good news indeed, but the problem of education in Colombia is so big it takes much more than that.

In these days I was in the difficult task of explaining to a foreigner the details of the current electoral debate. I started then the list of political parties and their ideological differences.